《肥肉》既收录了刘晓庆、许戈辉、杨澜、苏童、张嘉佳等会各界知名人士写下他们对肥肉的记忆，也收录了民间不同年龄不同领域的人对肥肉的记忆。同时也收集了日、韩、德等不同国家和地区的人们的肥肉故事。 这一段段时光的片段中，有美好，也有无奈，有辛酸，也有大笑，还有不为人知的感动，集中呈现了一个有关“肥肉”这个油腻而有趣的?话题背后的大时代、集体记忆和私人逸事。 这是一部中国人关于肥肉的经历和记忆，凝聚了中国人辛酸的过往、甜蜜的记忆以及正在发生的酸甜苦辣的故事。同时也是全球不同的人从不同的视角对肥肉的体味。
《四时之诗：蒙曼品ZUI美唐诗》是著名隋唐史学者、中国诗词大会评委蒙曼老师讲解唐诗的作品，蒙曼老师带你重返大唐，品读ZUI美唐诗?。该书以古典24节气和现代节日为切入点，带领读者在四季时令中阅读精选的唐诗作品，品味唐诗的语言美、文学美，讲述文化典故、进入诗人心境。以此为主题精心编排修订32首诗文讲稿。这些诗围绕着四季的节气和节日，其实就是围绕着唐代的岁月轮回，围绕着唐人的生命轮回。希望在这轮回中看到他们——李白、杜甫、王维，更希望在这轮回中看到我们——你我和他（她）。我们和他们，古代和今天，传统和未来，就相遇在这如许美妙的四时之诗中。让我们和蒙曼老师一起，细细领略那穿越千年而来的风花雪月，和那历经千年而不朽的绣口锦心。
《地球杀场》是一部英雄史诗般的科幻小说。故事发生在公元三千年的时候，地球已被外星入侵者——塞库洛统治了若干个世纪。塞库洛用毒气毁灭地球人类，对捕获到的幸存者施以暴虐；他们依靠庞大的星系矿业公司，主宰着银河系。 在洛基山脉的一个贫瘠荒凉的小山村，幸存的人类过着野蛮人的生活。乔尼·泰勒决定出走山庄，去寻找乐土，不幸落入塞库洛的魔爪。在其他幸存者：苏格兰人、中国人、俄国人的帮助之下，乔尼巧妙地与宇宙间邪恶势力周旋，并运用人类的智慧，战胜了塞库洛和别的企图瓜分地球的外星入侵者。
作者深入房地产行业内部，切身接触房产商、售楼小姐、房屋中介等不同环节的“迷人”规则，总结了几大不能相信：售楼小姐的嘴、媒体上的吹、定金会退、房源排队；还有关于房子价格表和销控表猫腻，房产中介的骗局等，无不让你生不如死还欲罢不能。 煤老板是一个特殊时期的群体，这个群体与二奶、悍马、伟哥、矿难等联系在一起。这个群体也长期被人们所诟病。煤老板迅速暴富，他们演绎着当代的传奇故事，成为了财富的象征。于是，围绕着煤老板，各色人等粉墨登场，贪官、假记者、黑社会、劫匪、殓尸工……上演了一幕幕当代社会的悲喜剧。 今年，随着煤炭资源重组，煤矿逐渐收为国有。此后，世间再无煤老板。
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat.' Spirited and impulsive, Marianne Dashwood is the complete opposite to her controlled and sensible sister, Elinor. When it comes to matters of the heart, Marianne is passionate and romantic and soon falls for the charming, but unreliable Mr Willoughby. Elinor, in contrast, copes stoically with the news that her love, Edward Ferrars is promised to another. It is through their shared experiences of love that both sisters come to learn that the key to a successful match comes from finding the perfect mixture of rationality and feeling.
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel followstheir development from childhood to youth and middle age.Separately and together, they query the relationship of past topresent, and the meaning of life itself.
This collection remains the incomparableachievement of one of America's greatest poets-a passionate man wholoved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done.
Translated by Edward Fitzgerald This edition presents the classic free translation by Edward Fitzgerald of the great Persian poem by the 12th century astronomer and poet - Omar Khayy m. Fitzgerald's masterful translation was first published as an anonymous pamphlet in 1859. Its colourful, exotic and remote imagery greatly appealed to the Victorian age's fascination with the Orient, while its luxurious sensual warmth acted as a striking counterpoint to the growth of scientific determinism, industrialisation and the soulless Darwinian doctrine of the survival of the fittest. Greatly praised by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin and William Morris, the romantic melancholy of the poem anticipates the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy, while its epicurean motifs link it to the Aesthetic Movement.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was one place in the world that stood solid and did not melt into unreality: the place where his mother was. Everybody else could grow shadowy, almost non-existent to him, but she could not.' In his quest to find his emotional and independent self, Paul Morel is torn between the strong, Oedipal bond he has with his mother and the relationships he forges as a young adult, with chaste Miriam and the provocative Clara. As Paul matures and struggles with his own and his mother's feelings towards the other women in his life, Lawrence expertly crafts a timeless and universal story of family, love and the relationships that define us.
The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works.The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeares most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the worlds literature. In the theatre and on screen King Lear continues to challenge and enthral. This Wordsworth edition of King Lear provides a comprehensive, integrated text of the play.
It is a timeless story of war and vengeance, of Good versusEvil. And at the center of this heroic epic stands Roland-thesupreme embodiment of chivalry and honor.
This classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects theauthor's philosophy of love and death.
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The adventures of Mowgli, a man-child raised by wolves in thejungle, have captured the imaginations not just of children, but ofall readers, for generations.
Spine-tingling and entertaining, "The Invisible Man" is ascience fiction classic-and a penetrating, unflinching look intothe heart of human nature. To its author, H. G. Wells, the novelwas as compelling as "a good gripping dream." But to generations ofreaders, the terrible and evil experiment of the dementedscientist, Griffin, has conveyed a chilling nightmare of believablehorror. An atmosphere of ever-increasing suspense begins with thearrival of a mysterious stranger at an English village inn andbuilds relentlessly to the stark terror of a victim pursued by amaniacal invisible man. The result is a masterwork: a dazzlingdisplay of the brilliant imagination, psychological insight, andliterary craftsmanship that made H. G. Wells one of the mostinfluential writers of his time.
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Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commandedattention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the powerof her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, andunmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money andposition she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of thetragedy that finally overwhelms her. The House of Mirth is a lucid,disturbing analysis of the stifling limitations imposed upon womenof Wharton's generation. Herself born into Old New York Society,Wharton watched as an entirely new set of people living by newcodes of conduct entered the metropolitan scene. In telling thestory of Lily Bart, who must marry to survive, Wharton recasts theage-old themes of family, marriage, and money in ways thattransform the traditional novel of manners into an arresting moderndocument of cultural anthropology. --This text refers to an outof print or unavailable edition of this title.
M.R.James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced.These tales are not only classics of their genre but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R.James Stories i Have Tried to Write which accompanies these thirty tales Among them are Casting the Runes Oh Whistle and lII come to you My Lad The Tractate Middoth the Ash Tree and Canon Alberics Scrapbook.
This superb new translation of "Death in Venice" and six otherstories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, sure to establish itselfas the definitive text for English-speaking readers. The sevenstories in this collection represent the early part of Mann'sliterary career, beginning with work he produced in 1896 at the ageof 21, and culminating in his most celebrated novella, "Death inVenice" (1912). Although Mann continued working until the end ofhis life in 1955, he despaired of ever matching the quality of hisearly writing. In these stories, Mann began to grapple with themesthat were to recur throughout his work. In the first piece, "LittleHerr Friedemann," as in "Death in Venice," a character's carefullystructured way of life is suddenly and unexpectedly threatened bysexual passion. In "Gladius Dei," puritanical intellect clasheswith beauty. In "Tristan," Mann presents an ironic and comicalaccount of tension between an artist and bourgeois society. Allseven of these stories are accomplished and memorable, but
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A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughtershave become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's "real entrée"into La Comédie Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novelsand short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell ofcivilization."
An international team of scholars offers:?? modernised, easilyaccessible texts?? ample but unobtrusive academic guidance??attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stagehistory?? informative illustations, including reconstructions ofearly performances --This text refers to an out of print orunavailable edition of this title.
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, melancholy philosophising and finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical reflection has helped to make As You Like It perennially popular in the theatre.
